ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 
There are several kinds of Sericotheca, much like 
Spiraea, except the fruits. 
A handsome conspicuous shrub, from 
Sere Semny. three to eight feet high, without stipules, 
Sericothéca dis- 2 . 
color (Spiraea) | With roughish, dull-green leaves, toothed 
(Holodiscus) or lobed, but not with leaflets, and pale 
ae and woolly on the under side. The tiny 
ummer . ° 
ie ae flowers form beautiful, plumy, branching 
Southwest clusters, eight inches or more in length 
and almost as much across, cream-white 
and fuzzy, drooping and turning brownish as the flowers 
fade. This is common in the mountains. 
There are numerous kinds of Rubus, in temperate 
regions, with white, pink, or purple flowers, and red, black, 
or yellowish “berries.’”’ The fruit is not really a berry, 
but a collection of many, tiny, round stone-fruits, crowded 
on a pulpy, conical receptacle. That of the Raspberry 
has a “‘bloom,”’ and falls off the receptacle when ripe, but 
the Blackberry has shining, black fruit, which clings to 
the receptacle. Rubus, meaning “‘red,’’ is the ancient 
Latin name for the bramble. Raspberries were cultivated 
by the Romans in the fourth century. 
A handsome bush, not at all trailing, 
Salmon-berry 
Ribus from three to nine feet high, with dark- 
spectabilis brown, prickly stems, fine foliage and 
Red flowers, and conspicuously beautiful fruit. 
Age The leaves are nearly smooth, with three 
Northwest 
leaflets, and the flowers, about two inches 
across, are a brilliant shade of deep pink, not purplish in 
tone, with yellow centers, and grow singly, or two or three 
together. The fruit is a firm, smooth raspberry, over an 
inch long, bright orange-color, more or less tinted with red, 
with a rather pleasant but insipid taste and not very sweet. 
This grows in woods. It is rather confusing that this 
should be called Salmon-berry in the West, for in the 
East that is the common name of Rubus parviflorus. 
again 8) An evergreen bush, a few feet high and 
beece more or less erect; or the prickly stems 
Rabus vitifolius trailing on the ground, or climbing over 
White other shrubs, and sometimes eighteen feet 
peasy a pay: long. The leaves are downy, or almost. 
>“ smooth, usually rather coarse in texture, 
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